Together, we’re funding the most promising and innovative research, including fellowship projects led by early-career scientists, and contributing to important advances in cancer prevention and early detection.
The Prevent Cancer Foundation awards research grants and fellowships to promising scientists for innovative projects with the potential to make substantial contributions to cancer prevention and early detection. This funding is critical to the future of cancer prevention as it fosters the next generation of cancer prevention research, creates a strong foundation of preliminary evidence to make scientific advances and provides the necessary support for research to move toward independent research careers.
By investing in innovation, we’re shaping the future together.
The 2024 research grants and fellowships cycle is now closed. Award notifications will be sent on Friday, November 29, 2024.
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By funding the most promising new research, the Foundation contributes to important advances in cancer prevention and early detection including:
Use the Prevent Cancer Foundation’s Award Database to discover researchers and projects driving these key advancements in cancer prevention and early detection.
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Project: A High-Risk Pedigree Approach to Identification of Predisposition Variants
Named Award: Vic Fazio Memorial Fund
Position: Professor and Division Chief in the Division of Genetic Epidemiology
Institution: Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah., Salt Lake City, Utah
Project: Dietary Fatty Acid Modulation for the Prevention of Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Named Award: Awesome Games Done Quick
Position: Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Genetics
Institution: The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
Project: Promoting Vaccine Acceptance in Immigrant Youths and Adults
Named Award: Awesome Games Done Quick
Position: Assistant Professor
Institution: New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, N.Y.
Project: Addressing Low Awareness of the Cancer Harms of Alcohol in the Population
Named Award: Congressional Families Program
Position: Attending Psychologist
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, N.Y.
Project: IGNITE-TX (Identifying Individuals for Genetic Testing & Treatment)
Named Award: In honor of Bernard Levin, M.D., FACP, professor emeritus of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Position: Associate Professor
Institution: University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Project: We Got Us: Promoting Cancer Family History Sharing Among Black Americans
Named Award: Awesome Games Done Quick
Position: Assistant Professor
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Project: Early Detection of Ovarian Cancer via Biomarker Discovery in Uterine Lavage
Named Award: Awesome Games Done Quick
Position: Associate Professor of Medicine;
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive, Biology
Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass.
Project: Immune Determinants of Barrett's Esophagus Progression
Named award: The Shure Family Charitable Foundation in memory of Max Shure
Position: Assistant Professor
Institution: University of California, San Francisco, Calif.
Project: Breast Density and Me: A Pilot Educational Intervention
Named Award: Marcia and Frank Carlucci Charitable Foundation
Position: Associate Professor
Institution: The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Project: Advancing Lung Cancer Screening Among Latinos One Text at a Time
Named Award: Richard C. Devereaux Outstanding Young Investigator Award
Position: Assistant Professor
Institution: Wilmot Cancer Institute, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, N.Y.
Project: Dietary Intervention for Clonal Hematopoiesis, Myelodysplasia and Leukemia
Named Award: Awesome Games Done Quick
Position: Research Fellow
Institution: Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Mass.
Project: Designing Metabolite-Based Prevention in Lynch Syndrome
Named Award: Stohlman Family Grant in memory of Richard Stohlman and Margaret Weigand
Position: Researcher
Institution: Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
Project: Adaptation of Project HEAL for Hispanic/Latino Immigrants
Named Award: Awesome Games Done Quick
Position: Assistant Professor
Institution: University of Maryland, Baltimore, Md.
Project: Quantifying the Impact of Skin Tone on Diagnostic Prediction
Named Award: Vic Fazio Memorial Fund
Position Director of the Tow Foundation Informatics Program in the Dermatology Service
Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, N.Y.
Project: Dissecting the Evolution of Clonal Hematopoiesis to Prevent Acute Leukemias
Named Award: Awesome Games Done Quick
Position: Fellow
Institution: University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
Project: Targeting the Long Isoform of the Prolactin Receptor to Prevent B-Lymphomas
Named Award: Congressional Families Program: Tribute to The Honorable Vic Fazio
Position Assistant Professor, Systems Biology
Institution: Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte, Calif.
Project: A Multicomponent Lung Cancer Screening Awareness mHealth Intervention
Named Award: The Shure Family Charitable Foundation
Position: Assistant Professor
Institution: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.